Packaged Tauri builds load the React app from a WebView origin while the sidecar API runs on a dynamic localhost port. The opener menu was rendering relative image paths such as /api/open-targets/icons/vscode, so the image request never reached the sidecar and every target fell back to the generic icon.
The desktop API layer now normalizes returned iconUrl values through the configured API base URL, matching how JSON requests already reach the sidecar. This keeps the React menu platform-agnostic while making packaged app icons load from the live server.
Constraint: Tauri production builds do not share the sidecar API origin for normal image src attributes.
Rejected: Build absolute URLs on the server | the server does not know the final browser-visible base URL in every H5/Tauri startup mode.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Any future API-provided browser asset URL should be normalized through the configured API base URL before assigning it to DOM src/href fields.
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- src/api/client.test.ts src/api/openTargets.test.ts src/stores/openTargetStore.test.ts src/components/layout/OpenProjectMenu.test.tsx src/components/layout/TabBar.test.tsx
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Browser-mode startup now respects an explicit Vite desktop server URL before falling back to same-origin H5 serving. This keeps local desktop smoke tests pointed at the real API server while preserving same-origin behavior for packaged H5 access.
Constraint: Vite dev smoke serves the web app and API on different loopback ports
Rejected: Treat same-origin as always preferred | Vite would answer /api requests with HTML and the chat surface never becomes ready
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- src/lib/desktopRuntime.test.ts src/api/client.test.ts --run
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Tested: bun run quality:gate --mode baseline --allow-live --only 'provider-smoke:*' --only 'desktop-smoke:*' --provider-model codingplan:main:codingplan-main
Not-tested: Full bun run quality:pr after this commit; it will run again during push
Browser-mode startup now preserves the desktop localhost path while prompting for H5 credentials when a non-loopback backend requires verification. The API client and websocket layer share a central token source so REST and session sockets authenticate consistently without leaking the token into diagnostics.
Constraint: Preserve the Tauri startup path and default localhost browser behavior
Rejected: Reuse the generic startup error view for H5 auth failures | it blocks the credential-entry recovery path
Directive: Non-loopback browser startup is the only path that should require saved H5 verification without re-checking the desktop bootstrap contract
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Tested: cd desktop && bunx vitest run src/api/client.test.ts src/api/websocket.test.ts src/components/layout/AppShell.test.tsx
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: git diff --check -- desktop/src/api/client.ts desktop/src/api/websocket.ts desktop/src/lib/desktopRuntime.ts desktop/src/components/layout/H5ConnectionView.tsx desktop/src/components/layout/AppShell.tsx desktop/src/api/client.test.ts desktop/src/api/websocket.test.ts desktop/src/components/layout/AppShell.test.tsx
Not-tested: Live remote H5 browser session against a running server
Diagnostics exports previously preserved only compact summaries, which made user-uploaded issue bundles hard to debug. This records richer sanitized details from server, CLI, SDK, browser, React, and desktop API failure paths while keeping request bodies and secrets out of client-side reports.
Constraint: Diagnostic bundles must be useful for GitHub issues without including chat contents, file contents, full environments, or API keys.
Rejected: Only expand the Settings UI summary | the exported bundle would still miss hidden runtime failures.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Keep diagnostics write paths best-effort and non-blocking; do not add request-body capture without a redaction review.
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/diagnostics-service.test.ts src/server/__tests__/conversation-service.test.ts
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test src/api/client.test.ts src/__tests__/diagnosticsSettings.test.tsx --run
Tested: bun run check:server
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Tested: agent-browser E2E on ports 37652/41752 captured client_unhandled_rejection and exported a redacted tar.gz bundle
The desktop Settings flow needed a real shell for bundled CLI setup, but the
restart path could hang behind old PTY teardown. Wire an xterm.js panel to a
portable-pty backend, inject the bundled CLI into the shell bootstrap, and
switch to the new session before cleaning up the previous one so restart work
stays off the frontend critical path.
Constraint: The desktop app must ship its own CLI entrypoint instead of depending on a global Claude install
Constraint: PTY teardown must not block the Tauri invoke path
Rejected: Reuse the install chat for arbitrary shell commands | it does not provide a real interactive PTY
Rejected: Close the old PTY before adopting the new session | it keeps restart vulnerable to hung child shutdown
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep PTY teardown off the invoke path and preserve session handoff ordering when changing terminal lifecycle code
Tested: bunx vitest run src/__tests__/terminalPanel.test.tsx src/components/settings/TerminalPanel.restart.test.tsx; bun run lint; cargo check
Not-tested: End-to-end command echo inside the packaged desktop terminal still needs follow-up runtime verification
The desktop app could read plugin-produced skills and agents, but it had no
plugin control plane of its own. This adds a dedicated Settings tab backed by
server-side plugin APIs so installed plugins can be inspected, enabled,
disabled, updated, reloaded, and uninstalled from the WebUI.
The implementation also teaches browser-based desktop dev sessions to honor a
custom backend URL, which made it possible to run isolated worktree ports for
real UI automation. During verification, the long-lived desktop server kept a
stale installed-plugin snapshot after external CLI mutations, so cache clearing
now resets that session-level plugin installation state as well.
Constraint: Desktop WebUI needed an isolated backend URL instead of the hard-coded 127.0.0.1:3456 fallback
Constraint: Reuse existing plugin operations and loaders instead of rebuilding plugin lifecycle logic in the desktop layer
Rejected: Fold plugin management into Skills or Adapters | mixed unrelated lifecycles and hid plugin-specific health/actions
Rejected: Expose only read-only plugin status in desktop | did not satisfy enable-disable-reload-uninstall verification needs
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep desktop plugin actions routed through the shared plugin operation layer and clear installed-plugin session caches when plugin state changes externally
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- src/__tests__/pluginsSettings.test.tsx
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/plugins.test.ts src/server/__tests__/skills.test.ts
Tested: Browser automation against isolated ports 15120/38456 covering discord plugin list/detail/disable/apply/enable/update/uninstall flows
Not-tested: Full desktop session runtime parity with CLI /reload-plugins AppState refresh beyond the new desktop API path
- security: XSS sanitization with DOMPurify in Markdown/Mermaid/PermissionDialog;
path whitelist in filesystem API; fake keys in test/config files
- perf: fine-grained Zustand selectors in Sidebar/StatusBar/ContentRouter;
50ms throttle on streaming deltas; React.memo + useMemo in MessageList;
useRef for frequent keyboard shortcut state; AbortController 30s timeout
- leaks: WS session TTL timers (5-min cleanup on close); batch splice for
sdkMessages/stderrLines; folderPath validation in cronScheduler
- quality: optimistic update rollback in settingsStore; error state in
providerStore/teamStore; i18n for all hardcoded English strings
- docs: desktop architecture and features docs updated; VitePress nav fixed
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add Tauri sidecar architecture: Rust shell spawns claude-server binary,
dynamic port allocation, health-check wait loop, graceful shutdown
- Fix CORS middleware to accept `tauri://localhost` and `https://tauri.localhost`
origins from Tauri WebView, and add CORS headers to /health endpoint
- Enable native macOS window decorations (traffic lights) with Overlay title bar,
add data-tauri-drag-region on sidebar for window dragging
- Conditionally apply desktop-only padding (44px for traffic lights) vs web (12px)
- Generate brand identity: light-background app icon, horizontal logo, full icon
set (icns/ico/png) for Tauri bundle
- Add brand mark + GitHub link in sidebar, replace mascot SVG with app icon
in EmptySession page
- Update README (zh/en) and docs hero image with new branding
- Add sidecar build scripts and launcher entry points
- Gitignore Rust target/, Tauri gen/, and brand-assets candidates
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The desktop app now keeps the composer stable while turns are active,
reduces low-signal tool noise in the transcript, restores project context
under the composer after session creation, and relies on the CLI's own
permission requests instead of injecting broader desktop-side Bash asks.
This also brings in the supporting desktop app source tree and the server
routes/session metadata needed for git info, filesystem browsing, session
resume, slash commands, and SDK-backed permission bridging so the UI can
operate as a coherent feature instead of a partial patch.
Constraint: Desktop transcript needs to stay usable during long multi-tool sessions without hiding file-change diffs
Constraint: Permission prompts must mirror CLI behavior closely enough that read-only commands do not get desktop-only prompts
Rejected: Keep rendering Read/Bash bodies inline | too noisy and unlike the intended transcript model
Rejected: Commit only the touched desktop files | would leave the newly introduced desktop app incomplete in git history
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: broad
Reversibility: messy
Directive: Treat non-writing tools as summary-first transcript events; do not re-expand them by default without validating the UX against long sessions
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: cd desktop && bun run test -- --run
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/conversations.test.ts
Not-tested: Manual visual regression against the exact screenshots in a live desktop session
Not-tested: Full root TypeScript check (repository still has unrelated extracted-native parse failures)
